Ed Ruscha - Evening & Day Editions London Thursday, September 19, 2024 | Phillips
  • Literature

    Siri Engberg 60-65

  • Catalogue Essay

    Including Flies; Black Ants; Swarm of Red Ants; Red Ants; Cockroaches; and Pearl Dust Combination.

    The soil for the cover of the portfolio was gathered from the playground at Hawthorne Elementary School, which Ruscha attended, in Oklahoma City.

  • Artist Biography

    Ed Ruscha

    American • 1937

    Quintessentially American, Ed Ruscha is an L.A.-based artist whose art, like California itself, is both geographically rooted and a metaphor for an American state of mind. Ruscha is a deft creator of photography, film, painting, drawing, prints and artist books, whose works are simultaneously unexpected and familiar, both ironic and sincere.

    His most iconic works are at turns poetic and deadpan, epigrammatic text with nods to advertising copy, juxtaposed with imagery that is either cinematic and sublime or seemingly wry documentary. Whether the subject is his iconic Standard Gas Station or the Hollywood Sign, a parking lot or highway, his works are a distillation of American idealism, echoing the expansive Western landscape and optimism unique to postwar America.

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309

Insects (E. 60-65)

1972
The complete set of six screenprints in colours, three on paper-backed wood veneer and three on Fabriano paper, the full sheets loose (as issued), with title page/colophon, all contained in the original raw linen-covered portfolio with plastic cover encapsulating brownish-red sand.
all S. approx. 51 x 68.5 cm (20 1/8 x 26 7/8 in.)
portfolio 52.5 x 69.5 x 2.8 cm (20 5/8 x 27 3/8 x 1 1/8 in.)

All signed, dated and numbered 74/100 in pencil (there were also 15 artist's proof sets in Roman numerals), published by Multiples, Inc., New York (with their and the artist's copyright inkstamp on the reverse), all unframed.

Estimate
£6,000 - 8,000 

Sold for £12,700

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Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 19 - 20 September 2024